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Ghost Stories
Architecture and the Intangible
Peter J. Baldwin (Edited by), PJ Baldwin (Author)
9781394185085, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 2 July 2024
144 pages
27.4 x 21.6 x 1 cm, 0.612 kg
It is not without irony that in an age characterised by the dissolution of certainty – a consequence of digital dematerialisation and the catastrophic destabilisation of our social institutions and natural world – architecture, for so long the repository for our myths and the vessel for our intangible narratives and rituals, has been stripped bare. Increasingly preoccupied with the physical, material and measurable, architecture has forfeited its original purpose as a mediating link between the tacit and the tangible. Drawing on the current resurgence and our enduring cultural fascination with the ethereal and uncanny, this AD frames the spectral as a deconstructive gesture that undermines the fixedness and certainties of binary logics, a means to develop new practices and positions from which to address our contemporary uncertainties. Gathering a body of work that explores and speculates on architecture’s long romance with the incorporeal, the issue is intended as a catalyst through which latency, contingency and indeterminacy, inherent characteristics of the architectural condition, can once more be valued, cultivated and nurtured. Contributors: Kirsty Badenoch; Michael Chapman;Nat Chard;Oliver G Goche and Peter P Goché; Perry Kulper; Ifigeneia Liangi and Daniel Dream; Eva Menuhin; Mark Morris; Mike Phillips; Ian Ritchie; Chris Speed, and Cameron Stebbing Featured architects and designers: Captivate: Spatial Modelling Research Group, Daniel Libeskind, Night Kitchen Studio, Michael Sandle, and Ritchie Studio
About the Guest-Editor 5 Introduction 6 I Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghosts … Syncopated Chronologies 16 Architectural Conservation and Spectral Documentation Imaging Uncertainty 26 Layers of Time and Meaning in a Sacred Space Haunted Houses 34 Architecture and Large Language Models Phantoms of a Five-Day Forest 40 Designing Absence 48 The Invisible Bridge and the Ghost Barn Solid Shadows 58 Presencing Memory, Manifesting Memorial Ghost Horizons 64 Scaffold and Syntax Chasing Paradoxical Shadows 74 Diaphanous Bodies 84 A Hauntology of the Mediating Image All Visualisations Have Crooked Tales/Tails 92 A Tailored Reality 102 Inside In Here Digital Ectoplasm and the Infinite Architecture of the Fulldome 110 Piranesi 118 An Unsettling World of Architecture Hard Spirits 126 Architectural Apparitions in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away From Another Perspective 134 Beyond the Realms of Death ‘Evident throughout human history, the relationship between architecture and the immaterial has long been established’ Contributors 142
Peter J Baldwin
Peter J Baldwin
Cameron Stebbing
Eva Menuhin
Chris Speed
Kirsty Badenoch
Ian Ritchie
Peter J Baldwin
Oliver G Goché and Peter P Goché
Nat Chard
Peter J Baldwin
Perry Kulper
Ifigeneia Liangi and Daniel Dream
Mike Phillips
Mark Morris
Michael Chapman
Neil Spiller
— Peter J Baldwin
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
